{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-salvage-and-pollution-act-1994-repealed-111996/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-salvage-and-pollution-act-1994-repealed-111996/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/28",
  "legislation_title": "Merchant Shipping (Salvage and Pollution) Act 1994 (repealed 1.1.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-salvage-and-pollution-act-1994-repealed-111996",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Extension of strict liability for oil pollution by ships.",
  "text": "(1) The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 shall be amended as provided in Schedule 3 (amendments imposing on other ships liability for oil pollution corresponding to that imposed on tankers).\n(2) In Part I of that Schedule “the 1971 Act” means the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 without the amendments made by Part I of Schedule 4 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1988.\n(3) In Part II of that Schedule “the 1971 Act” means the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971 as amended by Part I of Schedule 4 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) and section 5 of this Act.\n(4) Where the amendments of the 1971 Act made by Part II of Schedule 3 to this Act come into force after the 1971 Act has been amended by Part I of the said Schedule 3, Parts I and II of that Schedule shall have effect with the modifications specified in Part III of that Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 59."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1988 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 10(4); S. 6(1) (so far as relating to Pt. I of Sch. 3) and (2) in force at 1.10.1994 by S.I. 1994/1988, art. 3, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/28/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:50.080274+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}